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妈妈

mā ma 1–5

mama; mommy; mother

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
妈 · 妈
Syllables
2
mā ma
Frequency
Common
corpus count 527

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 妈mā6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 媽mother, mama
  • 妈mā6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 媽mother, mama

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你妈妈呢？

    Nǐ mā ma ne

    Where's your mom?

  • 你是我妈妈。

    Nǐ shì wǒ mā ma

    You are my mother.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 妈妈. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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